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My First Playlist (tm)
Sometime around Halloween, Calvin piped up at dinner and said, "I want to learn how to read." When probed for the source of his sudden interest, he replied that "You need to know how to read to be able to use an iPod!"
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canetoad pulled out the workbooks we used with Nina and they started working through them at bedtime. Calvin being Calvin, attention-span was an issue, but by the same token his glee at figuring out words and phonics and so forth lit up the room. There was a brief moment of iPod touch lust (over a lava lamp game, actually), but in a subsequent pillow conversation Calvin declared that it was all up to Santa which version he got and he mostly wanted to play his songs over and over again. Shortly thereafter, he read about half of _Go Dog, Go_ to me, including working out about 10 new words all on his own. Santa was satisfied, and Calvin received the same iPod Nano 4g that his father and sister own.
These are the specific songs Calvin asked me to load up for him:
1. "Peaches en Regalia" - Frank Zappa (a recent favorite, that I cannot take credit for. James played it in the car while driving Nina and Calvin to school. I fully approve.)
2. "The Distance" - Cake (Still quite popular. I gave him their cover of "I Will Survive" also.)
3. 'The Rocket Rocket song!' - Dead or Alive (this is really, "Lover Come Back to Me" from the _Rip it Up_ remix album, which we loaded in full.)
4. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (Because who doesn't love it?)
5. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (Of course. I gave him "Big River", "Ring of Fire", "I Walk the Line", and "A Boy Named Sue" just on principle.)
5. "Tweezer" - Phish (I gave him 8/7/2009 the Gorge because it's the one I have been listening to).
6. "Voodoo Chile (slight return)" - He wanted the SRV version. Still some work to do there.
After some more discussion, he was also happy to have:
7. "Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service (a great song, if a trifle emo)
8. "Fame" - David Bowie (from a CD I made for him this summer when we drove to Country Fair)
9. "One Thing Leads to Another" - The Fixx (from the same mix CD, I gave him "Saved by Zero" and "Are We ourselves" also)
10. "Uncle John's Band" - the Grateful Dead (specifically, from the GD Movie soundtrack)
11. The _Not for Kids Only_ album by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
12. The _World Clique_ album by Dee-lite.
13. The _Songs from the Old School" album by Ivan Ulz, an album of kids songs Nina brought with her from NY way back when.
14. TMBG _No!_ which is the greatest album of children's music ever recorded.
A pretty balanced portfolio. Curiously, he has not taken to the goa trance the way Nina once did, but then again he hasn't heard it, you know, LOUD. All in good time.
The end justifies the means, right?
canetoad pulled out the workbooks we used with Nina and they started working through them at bedtime. Calvin being Calvin, attention-span was an issue, but by the same token his glee at figuring out words and phonics and so forth lit up the room. There was a brief moment of iPod touch lust (over a lava lamp game, actually), but in a subsequent pillow conversation Calvin declared that it was all up to Santa which version he got and he mostly wanted to play his songs over and over again. Shortly thereafter, he read about half of _Go Dog, Go_ to me, including working out about 10 new words all on his own. Santa was satisfied, and Calvin received the same iPod Nano 4g that his father and sister own.These are the specific songs Calvin asked me to load up for him:
1. "Peaches en Regalia" - Frank Zappa (a recent favorite, that I cannot take credit for. James played it in the car while driving Nina and Calvin to school. I fully approve.)
2. "The Distance" - Cake (Still quite popular. I gave him their cover of "I Will Survive" also.)
3. 'The Rocket Rocket song!' - Dead or Alive (this is really, "Lover Come Back to Me" from the _Rip it Up_ remix album, which we loaded in full.)
4. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (Because who doesn't love it?)
5. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (Of course. I gave him "Big River", "Ring of Fire", "I Walk the Line", and "A Boy Named Sue" just on principle.)
5. "Tweezer" - Phish (I gave him 8/7/2009 the Gorge because it's the one I have been listening to).
6. "Voodoo Chile (slight return)" - He wanted the SRV version. Still some work to do there.
After some more discussion, he was also happy to have:
7. "Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service (a great song, if a trifle emo)
8. "Fame" - David Bowie (from a CD I made for him this summer when we drove to Country Fair)
9. "One Thing Leads to Another" - The Fixx (from the same mix CD, I gave him "Saved by Zero" and "Are We ourselves" also)
10. "Uncle John's Band" - the Grateful Dead (specifically, from the GD Movie soundtrack)
11. The _Not for Kids Only_ album by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
12. The _World Clique_ album by Dee-lite.
13. The _Songs from the Old School" album by Ivan Ulz, an album of kids songs Nina brought with her from NY way back when.
14. TMBG _No!_ which is the greatest album of children's music ever recorded.
A pretty balanced portfolio. Curiously, he has not taken to the goa trance the way Nina once did, but then again he hasn't heard it, you know, LOUD. All in good time.
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She also recently declared, totally out of the blue, that "Pictures of You" was "her favorite song."
Her *actual* favorite song is "7 days of the week" from TMBG's Here come the 123s, which she likes better than No!
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I suspect Calvin needs him some Allman Brothers.
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